751G.94/117
Memorandum of Conversation, by the Chief of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs (Hamilton)
Mr. Butler, Counselor of the British Embassy, telephoned and referred to the Department’s aide-mémoire of September 16, relating to the British Embassy’s aide-mémoire of September 12. Mr. Butler said that the observations made by the British Ambassador at Tokyo had apparently not caused the British Government to alter its view and he read to me a telegram which the British Foreign Office had sent to Tokyo in reply to the British Ambassador’s telegram. In its telegram the British Foreign Office pointed out that it realized that the Japanese reply might be as the British Ambassador had suggested, but that it was important that the British Government’s view be expressed to the Japanese Government.
I thanked Mr. Butler for communicating this information and said that in the light thereof we would give renewed study to the matter and would expect to get in touch with the Embassy again.